via UDL (Universal design for learning) A list of 25 apps that support reading and writing at various levels from beginner to more advanced. Key points and price included.
A directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.
Classification in various forms - Special Ed; Blooms; Multiple Intelligences etc.
Airplay is on your device already. Reflection is a small piece of software to download to your Mac or PC - it then allows you to mirror the iPad display to your Computer and hence to a data projector for all to see. 14.99 for a single licence...mutiple licenses available. A must for teaching in the classroom and wanting to share work from an iPad
This app is as fun as your own creativity. Act out a story of Pirates on the high seas, fight as scary monsters, or play the part of a Wild West bandit on the loose. You can even combine any characters however you want!
Scribble Press for iPad is a book creation platform that allows kids to imagine, create and share their own stories with great drawing and writing tools
is a two-dimensional barcode scanner for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Its main purpose is to scan and parse the contents of QR Codes. It can also generate QR Codes when you purchase the "Pro Pack".
WritePad lets you take notes in your own handwriting with an iPad stylus pen or even your finger. The state-of-the-art handwriting recognition software will adapt and learn your style of writing. You can use simple gestures to select text, cut, copy, paste, and insert special characters.
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything's flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad 2 (and the new iPad) video display.
Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard! ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s a radically intuitive app that anyone will find extremely easy to use, regardless of age or background.
The immensely popular Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy is now available as an interactive QBook with an AUSLAN sign language option in addition to the wonderful narration by David Tennant (Doctor Who).
What's on your mind? Unlike regular text messages, you can tell the whole story with
TINYVOX. NEW: upload right into YouTube - with a photo - in seconds! Voice Records and turns into MP3 file to use in many ways.
Bang! Boom! Cling! Crash! Wohooo! – What sound do you prefer? And what buzzer? It’s your choice. With the "Bang! Boom! Buzzer!" you decide which buzzer to use and what it sounds like
Simply type or copy in the text, and the app determines an accurate Flesch score and Flesch/Kincaid grade. Also provides a quick grammatical analysis of the text.
StoryPals includes the following features:
- 24 included, original stories ranging in readability levels 2-6
- Configurable text size (small, medium, large, extra large) and justification
- Text-to-speech with word highlighting for reading support
- Voice recordings are appended within a given story, and saved separately for stories
Creative Book Builder enables everyone to create, edit and publish ebooks in a few minutes on the go. All published ebooks can be read by any ePub reader including iBooks
Pictello is a simple way to create talking photo albums and talking books. Each page in a Pictello Story can contain a picture, up to five lines of text, and a recorded sound or text-to-speech using high-quality voices.
This app is a little search engine of applications for the Ipad family. Put in one app and it will give you related apps. A handy tool to finding something specific.
This PDF is taken from from Tony Vincen'ts Blog Site "Learning in Hand'.
It is a chart that compares different ways of connecting your iPad to a Computer - and hence a projector. VERY useful when you want students to share their work or demonstrate something.
The Learning in Hand Blog post can be found here : http://learninginhand.com/blog/2013/3/13/mirror-ipad-iphone-ipod-to-your-screen-for-free
Originally created by Harry Walker – Johns Hopkins University (18/11/2010 0 Edited, with permission, by Kathy Schrock, (25/02/2011) Updated by Greg Alchin (23/10/2012)
A very useful way of thinking about Apps. Some schools only allow a certain number and have to rank and prioritise them. Others have limited budget. This rubric forces you to think about the value of the app being assessed which ultimately makes it far more strategic when purchasing apps for quality learning and teaching.
THis blog post talks of the selection process and then gives four good examples that you could use to assist in the staff or personal selection of apps - given limited budgets and the plethora of apps, we do need some way of assessing and ranking them...this just might help.
Tom Barrett's Interesting Ways to use an iPad Presentation
This is great...this is more about the teaching than the apps! A must read for any teacher/school starting to use iPads as it is about the learning activity NOT an app.
Specific Apps (click the title to jump to that section on the page)
Guides & How Tos
iOS Apps to support reading and writing
via UDL (Universal design for learning) A list of 25 apps that support reading and writing at various levels from beginner to more advanced. Key points and price included.Allanah King's Initial Ipad Set Up site...
Lists of guides, resources, presentations, best dozen apps; senior students, kla lists etc.Lisisoft App Reviews - Catholic Religious Education Apps
A dynamic review of apps related to Catholic RE
Spectronics Apps for Special Education
A list of reviewed and explained apps under categories such as reading and literacy and Cause and Effect. Useful for all students, not just Support.200 Best Special Ed Apps
A comprehensive list that is quite useful for those starting to look aroundAPPitic
A directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.Classification in various forms - Special Ed; Blooms; Multiple Intelligences etc.
EduBlogs App for Ipads
A link to the itunes store....for those considering blogging, this could be very handy.An article from eSchool News regarding 5 free and 5 paid apps that they rank top 10.
Apps in Education
A blog that has started tolist some of the apps found under each of the Key Learning Areas.
http://www.macombasa.org/OTAppsforclassroom
Guide to Apps for the Classroom
www.advanceweb.com/OT
A list of rated and reviewed apps for the ipad - particularly from an Occupational Therapist perspective.
Vic Education - Ipads for education - Apps
Ipad apps listed via KLA classification
App list: app icon, title with link, and description provided
Australian edited applications for Special Education.Google the title and you'll find a pdf on the web too.
ProLoquo2go
A Revolutionary Education App Worth Talking AboutInformation about the App with demonstrations, explanations and more.
Teach with your Ipad Wiki - Bloom Taxonomy of Ipad Apps
A categorisation of Apps into the Blooms taxonomy categories. Google Blooms Taxonomy and Ipad Apps for further results .... this is a growing treng.UPad
Notetakeing software and annotation software - currently being used by St Matt's Mudgee Year 10 Trial.Book Creator
The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad.- similar to CBB (Creative Book Builder) but a little more user friendly.Puppet Pals HD Director's Pass
Kids and adults alike love the simplicity of puppeteering and voicing characters while creating movies to shareReflector - to use AirPlay
Airplay is on your device already. Reflection is a small piece of software to download to your Mac or PC - it then allows you to mirror the iPad display to your Computer and hence to a data projector for all to see. 14.99 for a single licence...mutiple licenses available. A must for teaching in the classroom and wanting to share work from an iPadVocabulary Spelling City
This popular website now has an iPad app with many of the features you've seen online.Puppet Pals
This app is as fun as your own creativity. Act out a story of Pirates on the high seas, fight as scary monsters, or play the part of a Wild West bandit on the loose. You can even combine any characters however you want!Scribble Press
Scribble Press for iPad is a book creation platform that allows kids to imagine, create and share their own stories with great drawing and writing toolsiMovie
Movie making right there on the iPad - from footage to finished product with credits, titles and sound tracks.Garage Band
Different from the Mac version, it still has lots of cool features. Great for music lessons, sound stories, podcasts and more.Qrafter (Crafter)
is a two-dimensional barcode scanner for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Its main purpose is to scan and parse the contents of QR Codes. It can also generate QR Codes when you purchase the "Pro Pack".Write Pad
WritePad lets you take notes in your own handwriting with an iPad stylus pen or even your finger. The state-of-the-art handwriting recognition software will adapt and learn your style of writing. You can use simple gestures to select text, cut, copy, paste, and insert special characters.Explain Everything
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything's flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad 2 (and the new iPad) video display.Show Me
Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard! ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s a radically intuitive app that anyone will find extremely easy to use, regardless of age or background.
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/hairy-maclary-from-donaldsons/id383481759?mt=8Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy
The immensely popular Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy is now available as an interactive QBook with an AUSLAN sign language option in addition to the wonderful narration by David Tennant (Doctor Who).TinyVox
What's on your mind? Unlike regular text messages, you can tell the whole story withTINYVOX. NEW: upload right into YouTube - with a photo - in seconds! Voice Records and turns into MP3 file to use in many ways.
Bang Boom Buzzer
Bang! Boom! Cling! Crash! Wohooo! – What sound do you prefer? And what buzzer? It’s your choice. With the "Bang! Boom! Buzzer!" you decide which buzzer to use and what it sounds likeReadability Score
Simply type or copy in the text, and the app determines an accurate Flesch score and Flesch/Kincaid grade. Also provides a quick grammatical analysis of the text.StoryPals
StoryPals includes the following features:- 24 included, original stories ranging in readability levels 2-6
- Configurable text size (small, medium, large, extra large) and justification
- Text-to-speech with word highlighting for reading support
- Voice recordings are appended within a given story, and saved separately for stories
Creative Book Builder
Creative Book Builder enables everyone to create, edit and publish ebooks in a few minutes on the go. All published ebooks can be read by any ePub reader including iBooksNotability
- intuitive notetakingQwiki
Multimedia information - have a look as it is hard to explain (From Mick Rossitt HFS Bathurst)ProLoquo2go
A Revolutionary Education App Worth Talking AboutInformation about the App with demonstrations, explanations and more.
Show Me
Turn the ipad into your own personalised interactive whiteboard!Pictello
Pictello is a simple way to create talking photo albums and talking books. Each page in a Pictello Story can contain a picture, up to five lines of text, and a recorded sound or text-to-speech using high-quality voices.School A to Z
Recommended by St Joseph's Blayney (Thanks Julie)Ipad or Android with a whole heap of stuff
Docs to Go App
This allows you to create, open and edit Microsoft Office documents etc - a very handy little appApps Discovr
This app is a little search engine of applications for the Ipad family. Put in one app and it will give you related apps. A handy tool to finding something specific.Guides & How Tos
How to Mirror your iPad on a Computer/Projector
This PDF is taken from from Tony Vincen'ts Blog Site "Learning in Hand'.
It is a chart that compares different ways of connecting your iPad to a Computer - and hence a projector. VERY useful when you want students to share their work or demonstrate something.
The Learning in Hand Blog post can be found here :
http://learninginhand.com/blog/2013/3/13/mirror-ipad-iphone-ipod-to-your-screen-for-free
An Assessment Rubric for Apps
Originally created by Harry Walker – Johns Hopkins University (18/11/2010 0 Edited, with permission, by Kathy Schrock, (25/02/2011) Updated by Greg Alchin (23/10/2012)A very useful way of thinking about Apps. Some schools only allow a certain number and have to rank and prioritise them. Others have limited budget. This rubric forces you to think about the value of the app being assessed which ultimately makes it far more strategic when purchasing apps for quality learning and teaching.
4 Rubrics to assess selection of Ipad Apps
THis blog post talks of the selection process and then gives four good examples that you could use to assist in the staff or personal selection of apps - given limited budgets and the plethora of apps, we do need some way of assessing and ranking them...this just might help.Tom Barrett's Interesting Ways to use an iPad Presentation
This is great...this is more about the teaching than the apps! A must read for any teacher/school starting to use iPads as it is about the learning activity NOT an app.
Apple Education
A whole section devoted to apps in educationIpadagogy
Using Ipads with Special NeedsGetting Started
Another one from treetops....talks about getting started on ipads.Teacher Cast
App Reviews; Resources and a free app for your iPhone/IPadScreen casts...quite useful
Teach with Your Ipad
Wiki Set up to cover setting up Ipads but also many Apps categorised